Monday, February 9

A new website and four new kits for February from Hobbyboss…

Hobbyboss' February items - mostly for the tank guys but a specter of a Helix that will get nearly all modellers interest... Let's have a look...

Hobbyboss new items for February 2015

Hungarian 44M TAS

Model #83850

Scale 1:35th

The 44M TAS tank
was designed both as a main battle tank and tank destroyer equipped with a 75mm
gun. The design was preferred over having to develop a turretless tank
destroyer armed with an 88mm gun. Conceived in 1943, it was intended to replace
the inferior Hungarian 40M Turan and 43m Zrinyi. Mass production would have
stared in 1945 but the factory and the prototype were destroyed in 1944.

Features

The kit consists of
over 390 parts

>the kit w/refined
detail

>multi-slide moulded
upper hull

>photo etched
parts included

>individual tracks

Model Dimension
Length: 261mm Width:99 mm

Total Plastic Parts
390+

Total Sprues 11 sprues,
upper hull and lower hull

Metal Parts
brass wire

Photo Etched Parts 1 sheet

Soviet BA-3 Armoured Car

Model #83838

1:35th
scale

The BA-3 was a heavy armoured car developed in the Soviet
Union in 1933, followed by a slightly changed model, the BA-6 in1936. Both were
based mostly on the BA-I, the most important difference being the new turret,
same one as in the T-26 m1933 and BT-5 tanks, and also equipped with the45 mm main
gun. Around 180 BA-3 cars were built until production ceased in 1935.

Most of BA-3 production was based on the Ford-Timken
chassis, a 6×4 modification of the US Ford AA 4×2 truck, but the last batch was
built on a Russian version of the same chassis - GAZ-AAA, continued to be used
in BA-6. The biggest limitation of the BA-3 was mobility, limited to roads or
very hard ground, the result of its unnecessarily large weight. The innovation
that slightly improved mobility were the auxiliary ("Overall") tracks
that could be fitted onto the rear tandem wheels, effectively converting the
car to half-track.

Features

The kit consists of
over 290 parts

>the kit w/refined
detail

>multi-slide moulded
hull

>turret split into
three parts

>photo etched
parts included

>rubber tires

Model Dimension
Length: 140.8mm Width:
59.5mm

Total Plastic Parts
290+

Total Sprues 12 sprues,
hull and tires

Photo Etched Parts 2 pcs

Russian Ka-27 Helix

Model #81739

1/48th
scale

The Kamov Ka-27
Helix is a military helicopter developed for the Soviet Navy, and it is currently
in service in various countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam and the
People's Republic of China.

Like other Kamov military helicopters it has coaxial rotors,
removing the need for a tail rotor. The prototype took the first flight in the 24th
of December, 1973.The Ka-27PL Helix-A is the standard anti-submarine warfare
variant.

Features

The kit consists of
over 290 parts

-Detailed fuselage
w/accurate design

-Detailed cockpit

Model Dimensions
Length: 280mm Rotor diameter:
331.5mm

Total Plastic Parts
290+

Total Sprues 11
sprues

Soviet T-35 Heavy Tank - 1938/1939

Model #83843

1:35th Scale

The T-35 was a Soviet multi-turreted heavy tank of the
interwar period and early Second World War that saw limited production and service
with the Red Army. It was the only five-turreted heavy tank in the world to
reach production but proved to be slow and mechanically unreliable. Most of the
T-35 tanks still operational at the time of Operation Barbarossa were lost due
to mechanical failure rather than enemy fire. Externally it was large but
internally the spaces were cramped with the fighting compartments separated
from each other, with some of the turrets even obscuring crew hatches.